AFROMIGRANTES EM JORNAIS DO SUL GLOBAL: "CRIMINOSOS", "SAMARITANOS" E "VÍTIMAS".

This paper examines forms through which black/Afro-descendant migrants are represented in a newspaper from Brazil and another from South Africa, mostly considering meaning effects on the construction of race and ethnicity in news articles published by both media outlets in 2015. This work also uses Corpus Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis in order to deal with the verbal language of both periodicals. Preliminary conclusions suggest that black/Afro-descendant migrants are represented from the perspective of criminality, either as victims or agents of illegality. Furthermore, these subjects are generally positioned as mere beneficiaries of solidarity, particularly in the case of Brazil, or as offenders in the case of the South African newspaper. Although a passivizing representation is common between the two outlets, the Brazilian newspaper employs more editorial resources of reported speech on migrants, while the South African newspaper either silences them or applies fewer editorial strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]